Ludwig Siebert

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Ludwig Georg Siebert (born October 17, 1874 in Ludwigshafen , † November 1, 1942 in Stock am Chiemsee ) was a German lawyer and politician ( BVP / NSDAP ). He served as mayor of Rothenburg ob der Tauber and from 1924 mayor of Lindau . In 1931 he joined the NSDAP as the first mayor of a Bavarian municipality and sat for them in the Bavarian state parliament in 1932/33 and in the Reichstag from November 1933 . On April 12, 1933 he was appointed Bavarian Prime Minister. From 1936 until his death he also served as Minister of Economics .

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Siebert's father was a train driver, his brother Friedrich Siebert General of the Infantry in the Wehrmacht . Ludwig Siebert attended grammar school in Mannheim and studied law in Munich from 1893 to 1897 .

After the second legal examination in 1900 and working as a lawyer trainee in Frankenthal (Palatinate) , was Siebert public prosecutor in Bad Durkheim and Neustadt an der Haardt (now Neustadt on the Wine Route) . From 1905 to 1906 he worked as a public prosecutor at the Fürth district court . In 1907 he became magistrate in Lindau in Lake Constance. From 1908 he officiated as legally qualified mayor of the city of Rothenburg ob der Tauber , was a member of the Rothenburg district assembly and became a member of the Bavarian People's Party .

In the city of Lindau Siebert was elected First Mayor in 1919 and Lord Mayor in 1924 . During his tenure, the city was expanded to include large-Lindau , the pier and the Eichwald bathing area were built, and the Toskanapark and the new cemetery were laid out. When he joined the NSDAP in January 1931 ( membership number 356.673) he became the first Lord Mayor of the NSDAP in Bavaria . From 1932 to 1933 he held a mandate from the NSDAP in the Bavarian state parliament , and then from November 12, 1933 to 1942, he represented the NSDAP in the Reichstag for constituency 24, Upper Bavaria and Swabia.

On March 9, 1933 Siebert became State Commissioner for the Ministry of Finance in Bavaria under Reich Commissioner Franz Ritter von Epp and on March 16, Finance Minister in the provisional Council of Ministers. On April 12, 1933 Siebert was appointed Minister-President of Bavaria . In 1933/34 and from 1936 he also served as Minister of Economics. In 1935 he became head of the Bavarian State Chancellery and in 1939 President of the German Academy in Munich .

Siebert was appointed SA-Gruppenführer on November 9, 1933 and five years later Obergruppenführer .

On April 12, 1938, the NSDAP awarded him the Golden Party Badge . In Bayreuth , the former margravial riding hall (now the town hall ) , which was converted into a festival hall in 1935, was named after Siebert. Siebert became an honorary citizen of several cities during the National Socialist rule .

Although the honorary citizenship is only awarded for life, recognized z. B. Speyer, Augsburg and Würzburg expressly withdrew their honorary citizenship after the end of the war and were thus able to delete him from the list of former honorary citizens. In Rothenburg ob der Tauber, the street named after him was renamed in Obere Bahnhofstraße in 2015 .

The Bavarian state politician and SS leader Friedrich Siebert was his son.

publication

  • The new paths in the German economy . JF Lehmann, Munich 1936; 2nd edition 1938

Awards

Functions

  • Member of the working committee of the German Association of Cities, 1933
  • Member of the cultural council of the German Foreign Institute in Stuttgart, 1933 to 1942
  • President of the Academy for German Law , 1939
  • President of the German Academy in Munich, 1939 to 1942

Member or chairman of a supervisory board

  • Reichswerke AG Alpine mining company "Hermann Göring" in Linz, 1938–1942
  • Bayerischer Lloyd Schiffahrts AG in Regensburg
  • Reichswerke AG for inland shipping "Hermann Göring"
  • Bayerische Werke AG
  • Walchenseewerk AG
  • Middle Isar AG
  • Bayerische Wasserwerke AG
  • Bayerische Berg-, Hütten- und Salzwerke AG
  • Bayerische Heimstätten GmbH

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 .
  • Hans-Michael Körner (Ed.): Large Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia , Vol. 3, P – Z. Munich: KG Saur 2005, p. 1836.
  • Joachim Lilla u. a. (Editor): Extras in Uniform - The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, p. 617.
  • Daniel Rittenauer: The office of the Bavarian Prime Minister in the Nazi era (=  series of publications on Bavarian national history . Volume 169 ). CH Beck, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-406-10784-9 ( limited preview in Google book search).

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Siebert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 428.
  2. a b Lilla, Extras in Uniform, p. 617
  3. ^ A b Klaus D. Patzwall : The golden party badge and its honorary awards 1934–1944. Patzwall, Norderstedt 2004, ISBN 3-931533-50-6 , p. 87
  4. ^ Manfred Krapf: Lord Mayor , in: Historisches Lexikon Bayerns
  5. Will Ludwig-Siebert-Straße be renamed? In: nordbayern.de/ Fränkischer Anzeiger . April 7, 2015, accessed July 9, 2018 .
  6. The last Nazi disappears from the street signs in Rothenburg in 2015 - chronology and documentation of a long overdue renaming. In: Rothenburg-unterm-Hakenkreuz.de. Retrieved on July 9, 2018 (see also the other articles on street names on the website ).
  7. Joachim Lilla : Siebert, Friedrich (Fritz) , in his. Minister of State, senior administrative officials and (NS) functionaries in Bavaria from 1918 to 1945